“I view James Joyce’s work as the deepest fiction to address reader literacy problems / oral tradition problems of listening to storybook content ever created. What James Joyce has done with his extremely sophisticated fiction is confront the audience with their own inability to distinguish fiction from non-fiction when encounter poetry that is incredibly charming and appealing. Joyce was disgusted with the state of literacy affairs in Dublin and he labored more than any other person to educate society how to move beyond the non-fiction / fiction crisis.” - Stephen Gutknecht, year 2025